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Herbal medicines have been with us as long as we have been around.

Early on humankind was omnivorous, we ate the plants, grains, roots and herbs we found around us in nature. Meat tended to be hard to acquire, and harder to perverse, so we relied on vegetable matter for the bulk of our diet. In the gleaning of those plants we found items that had beneficial effects on our systems. Those effects were noted and remembered, so that when a member of the group suffered from, for example, a stomach ache, peppermint was steeped in water and given as a tea to relieve the symptoms.

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